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The Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) is using a portion of its federal relief funding to provide public school sophomores, juniors and seniors an extra opportunity to take college and career readiness assessments. The ACT, SAT and/or PSAT will be given at no cost in October.
Read moreThe destruction from Hurricane Ida has left residents of Louisiana and surrounding states without electric service for nearly two weeks as the restoration process continues. OG&E’s 270 line workers, vegetation management personnel and support staff have made significant progress getting power restored for the residents of Jackson Parish, Louisiana.
Read moreModern cars are technological marvels, and it turns out drivers may value tech over all else, including their choice of automaker.
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Seventeen months. Until last weekend, that’s how long it had been since I had seen my two daughters and my five grandkids. In fact, I had never met my youngest grandson, Jameson, who will turn a year old next month (four days after my birthday).
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Officers of several local FFA chapters participated in the 2021 Oklahoma FFA Chapter Officer Leadership Training Conference Aug. 31 at the LifeChurch in McAlester.
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Read moreThe United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jason Don Rowan, 38, entered a guilty plea on August 31, 2021, to Rioting in a Federal Detention Facility, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1792, 2, punishable by imprisonment for a period of up to 10 years and/or a fine of up to $250,000.00, supervised release of not more than 3 years, and a special assessment fee in the amount of $100.00.
Read moreA new pesticide is now available to farmers as an aid in the fight against feral hogs. On August 5, HOGSTOP Oral Contraceptive Formulation was registered with the Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Forestry. HogStop claims to decrease the fertility of male feral hogs by reducing sperm count.
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